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October 15, 2015

Second QDT meeting for PDA in Software Development

The Qualification Development Team (QDT) for the PDA in Software Development met for the second time this morning. I announced the development in June and the first meeting of the QDT took place in August. The purpose of the meeting was to review progress. We’ve done a lot in a short time. A QDT has been formed, a Lead Developer selected, the aims of the award have been decided, a structure agreed, and the entry requirements have been discussed. The…

Categories: Development, PDA

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October 13, 2015

Reasons to do Cyber Security Fundamentals

Since Helen announced last week that the new National Unit entitled Cyber Security Fundamentals (SCQF Level 4) was now available, we’ve had a lot of interest from centres interested in offering the new Unit. There are lots of reasons for doing so. In a sense, cyber security has replaced online safety as an essential online skill since it encompasses personal safety but also explores the need for groups, businesses and nations to protect themselves. Recent media reports about cyber attacks…

Categories: Computing, Qualifications, Unit Specification

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October 12, 2015

NPA Digital Literacy is validated

I came into good news this morning — the NPA Digital Literacy at SCQF Level 3 has now been validated. A number of conditions and recommendations were placed on it at the recent validation event, but these have now been addressed. This (almost) brings to a conclusion a development that commenced last February. The final stage is to “operationalise” the qualification (code it, put it on the website, add it to our database, etc.) so that centres can register candidates for…

Categories: Computing, Digital literacy, NPA, Validation

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October 7, 2015

Cyber Security Fundamentals Unit is now live

Cyber Security Fundamentals (SCQF level 4) is now available on the SQA website. More information about this National Unit can be found here. This Unit will be packaged as an Award and learners will received a commemorative certificate after achieving it. It will be added into the framework of NC Computing with Digital Media SCQF level 4 as an optional unit. The SOLAR assessment and Assessment Support Pack (ASP) are under development and will be available around December this year. Please…

Categories: Computing

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